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OCTOBER 10, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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Musical Merchandise at
Illinois Products Show
Chicago Trade to Be Well Represented at Ex-
position to Be Held at American Furniture
Mart Next Month
CHICAGO, III., October 3.—The latest designs
in musical merchandise will be displayed by a
co-operative exhibit of the Association of Musi-
cal Merchandise Manufacturers of the Chicago
Zone at the Illinois Products Exposition, which
will take place at the American Furniture Mart,
666 Lake Shore Drive, this city, October 8 to 17,
inclusive.
The twenty-two members of the Association
will each be represented and the display of the
Chicago organization will be one of the out-
standing features of the exposition. This will
no doubt increase the interest and stimulation
in musical merchandise among the patrons of
the exposition who come from all parts of the
State.
Demonstrations of the instruments will be
made by professional musicians, and members
of the Association will take care of the inquir-
ing visitors and explain the various features of
the instruments on display.
A number of the members exhibited at the
exposition last year with a great deal of suc-
cess in educating the visitors in musical mer-
chandise which resulted indirectly in greater
sales of instruments manufactured by the com-
panies in the Chicago zone. The co-operation
of the entire membership will add to the size
of the exhibition this year as well as provide a
number of additional features. The members
exhibiting are as follows:
American Gut String Mfg. Co. Chicago; Ar-
mour & Co., Chicago; American Plate Enamel
Co., Chicago; Wm. Frank Co., Chicago; Geib &
Schaefer Co., Chicago; Eugene Geisler & Co.,
Chicago; Globe Music Co., St. Charles, 111.; Wal-
ter M. Gotsch Co., Chicago; The Harmony Co.,
Chicago; R. R. Hunt Mfg. Co., Union City, Ind.;
Liberty Rawhide Mfg. Co., Chicago; Ludwig &
Ludwig, Chicago; Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago;
Paragon Case Co., Oregon, 111.; Harry Pedler
& Co., Inc., Elkhart, Ind.; Regal Musical In-
strument Co., Chicago; Richter Mfg. Co., Chi-
cago; Slingerland Banjo Mfg. Co., Chicago; J.
R. Stewart Co., Chicago; Stromberg-Voisnet
Co., Chicago; V. C. Squier Co., Battle Creek,
Mich., and Wilson Bros. Mfg. Co., Chicago.
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Atlanta Co., Atlanta, Ga.; Conn Mobile Co.,
Mobile, Ala.; Conn New Orleans Co., New Or-
leans, La.; Dunn's Music House, El Paso, Tex.;
Thos. Goggan & Bro., Houston, Tex.; Sundberg
Powell Music Co., St. Paul, Minn.; Cosmo- Banjo-Uke Supplanting Regular Ukulele in New
politan Music Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; S. E.
Orleans and Growing Demand for Trombones
Philpitt & Son, Miami, St. Petersburg and
and Saxophones
Washington; Northwest Conn Co., Seattle,
Wash., and the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt
NEW ORLEANS, LA., October 6.—Howard C.
Lake City, Utah.
Voorhees, Southern manager for the Conn line
of band instruments, reports the banjo-uke is
supplanting the ukulele in sales volume. He be-
lieves this is due to the increased use of small
stringed and plectrum instruments to re-enforce
the piano as an accompaniment to group sing-
Big Crowd Witnesses Unusual Feature of ing. It is also true, this dealer notes, that more
Annual Playground Children's Circus in Grant trombones are being sold than ever before since
music publishers began writing parts for saxo-
Park
phones to fit small orchestral units. The stand-
ard small orchestra is now seven pieces instead
CHICAGO, III., October 3.—One of the chief
features of the annual playground children's of six in this section, and the trombone is al-
circus, given by 5,000 playground and park boys most universally made the seventh piece. The
and girls of Chicago recently at the Grant arrangement now stands: cornet, two saxo-
Park Stadium, was the appearance of the har- phones, clarinet, piano, violin and trombone.
monica orchestra made up of over a thousand There is also a noticeable increase in tenor
saxophone sales, the tenor instrument taking the
boys and girls.
The performance, which was witnessed by place of other saxophones which preceded the
about 15,000 people, aroused a great deal of in- tenor in the cognizance of the general public.
terest in the harmonica and a number of in-
quiries were made asking that the band play
before a number of other public gatherings.
The complete orchestra numbers 2,000, all
SALT LAKK CITY, UTAH, September 30.—Plans
members of Chicago's parks and playgrounds, are under way for a band contest to be held in
and are under the direction of C. H. English, connection with the Utah State Fair, which
director of playgrounds for the public schools. will be held in this city next week. The local
music dealers are behind the contests and prizes
have been contributed by the following: $100
cash and a musical instrument, the Western
Music & Art Co.; $75 cash and a $115 Holton
COLUMBUS, O., October 3.—George J Guldan.
for many years head of the Jackson-Guldan trombone, Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co.; $50
Violin Co., the first American concern to manu- cash and a bass drum, Beesley Music Co.; a
facture violins on a large production scale, is gold cornet, the Consolidated Music Co.; a gold
now with the American Ukulele Co., which he saxophone, Daynes-Beebe Music Co.
recently founded in East Sparta, O., where
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
ukuleles will be manufactured on a large scale.
The factory in East Sparta will soon be in- The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
creased in size.
Changes in Demand for
Small Musical Instruments
Harmonica Orchestra of
1,000 Plays in Chicago
Utah State Band Contest
With American Ukulele Co.
SLINGERLAND
MAY-BELL
Epiphone Production Now
at Two Hundred Weekly
Many New Retail Music Merchants Are Taking
the Line—New Super Wonder Banjo Breaking
Records
The House of Stathopoulo, Inc., is busy in-
creasing its production of stringed instruments
as the demand grows apace, according to the
announcement made last week by Epi Statho-
poulo, head of this concern which manufactures
the Epiphone line of banjos. The company is
now turning out about two hundred instruments
a week and the sales of the new Super Wonder
banjo are breaking all records, reports Mr. Sta-
thopoulo.
Among the newly appointed distributors of
Epiphone banjos are such houses as the Conn
Slingerland Banjos—Sold by practi-
cally all leading dealers. Over forty
styles to select from. Instruments of tone quality and dur-
ability. Sold at moderate price. Write for catalog and dealer's
proposition.
Slingerland Banjo Co.
I8I5 Orchard Street
Chicago, 111.